One of our readers contacted me to say they had had a real setback in their life’s goal. They were upset, deflated, feeling generally “yuk” about it.
This is a message for them, and for you if you have ever suffered a setback:
1. Rebuild yourself. Take time out to do so. Count your blessings, strengthen yourself.
2. Refresh your Vision of the big goal. Look long-term again. Focus on the overall long-term goal. Make the Vision bigger, brighter, bolder, and even more compelling and exciting (and don’t forget the Reason).
3. Plan your strategy. Reconfigure the route to your goal from the new position. Circumstances have changed, so you need to just re-establish your plan.
4. Simplify the actions you need to take on a consistent and regular basis. And write these down. Take action on the simplified steps to get there, now focussing just on these initial small steps.
Remember, Decca turned down The Beatles. And it is reputed that Walt Disney was turned down by 107 banks for a loan to set up Disney.
If you were watching a film, and it began with the good guys winning, it wouldn’t be much of a story would it. The good guys have to start off in dire straits, so that we can all enjoy the comeback, the journey they take to victory.
That’s the nature of goals: they are only goals because they require you to overcome the challenge. No challenge, no goal, no success.
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln